Sketch Day Selkie’s Mom

So, I decided to draw a sketch of Selkie’s mom for the skip day. A couple people requested it, but mostly I chose it because it reminded me of something else.

See, way back in August when I began this back-to-school story arc, I opened it with a dream sequence. I also decided at the last minute to cut out the third act of the dream sequence. The third act of the dream sequence featured Selkie’s mom pulling a dues ex machina to save her from the bullying centaur ballerinas (makes sense in context XD).

I decided to cut out the third act partially because the dream sequence was running longer than I thought it would, but mostly (and more importantly) because it brought up the question of Selkie’s mom and Selkie’s feelings towards her, but those issues were not in my plan to be addressed during this story arc. I decided to address that part of Selkie’s backstory at a more relevant time and shorten the dream sequence.

However, I’ve always loved that drawing of Selkie’s mom standing tall enough to breach the atmosphere, so in addition to a sketch of Selkie’s mom that shows some details of her look, here is also a deleted scene from the dream sequence. 😀

Regular comic will air on Monday! Thanks again for understanding everyone.

Discussion (32) ¬

When you think about it, this is a twofer; we get to see another deleted scene from the dream sequence, as well as Selkie’s mom.

I do have one question to bring up, though, even if it seems a little obvious. Since Selkie seems old enough to remember her mother before she was left at the orphanage, that means she probably remembers her, right? Or no? Or somewhere in-between?

Also, I showed this to my mother and she said that’s exactly how she felt like when she had to defend us (me and my brothers, when we were little) from either too roughly playing older kids or other playground unfairness. ^_^

I’m actually pleased to get this part of the dream sequence now rather than before. I was one of the viewers who wanted to get away from the dream sequence and back to the regular story, and in hindsight I think it was a good choice. If Selkie’s mother had shown up during the dream arc I think it would have just raised a lot more questions than answers and left us “hanging” for an explanation that wouldn’t be forthcoming for awhile. I feel really bad for Selkie being put up for adoption in a world that she doesn’t fit in, and hope there can be some sort of positive closure on the part involving her biological parents.

The thing about writing characters that have foster/adoptive parents is that eventually you need to bring up their birth parents. Because of the feelings of “awkwaaard” most writers usually nix them. If not they portray the birth parents as “terrible people” for “abandoning” their kid. Which is why I always feel weird reading fiction/comics with them because of this stigma of “if you give up your kid, you’re a terrible person”.

Hopefully when you bring in Selkie’s momma you do it with grace and poise

Ok you threw me for a minute with the fact that she has breasts but then I went trolling back through the archives to find this http://www.selkiecomic.com/images/Anatomy-Sketch.png and now it makes sense again.
Amphibious mammalian beings… Selkie, why do I see you having a pet platypus at some point?

Or not mammalian, just convergent evolution on breast tissues and feeding milk to their young. Heck, there are some birds (pidgeons, I think?) that can produce milk-like substance for their chicks, but as they lack breasts, they produce it in their crops and regurgitate it for their chicks.

The breasts are not a mistake; their species nurses young for the first couple weeks to supply calcium until the jaws become strong enough to crunch bones. While not exactly like mammalian milk (much lower in fats for one) it’s similar enough that they can actually digest cheeses and dairy.

I really wish I could read the speech bubbles on your sketches but on the last couple the lines haven’t been dark/clear enough on the text for me to be able to do so. I enjoy them anyway but the words of your comic are so much of what give them power…